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Rabbi Max Heller

Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929

By: Barbara S. Malone,Bobbie Malone

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Rabbi Max Heller

Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929

By: Barbara S. Malone,Bobbie Malone

This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history. Max Heller was a man of both passionate conviction and inner contradiction. He sought to be at the center of current affairs, not as a spokesperson of centrist opinion, but as an agitator or mediator, constantly struggling to find an acceptable path as he confronted the major issues of the day--racism and Jewish emancipation in eastern Europe, nationalism and nativism, immigration and assimilation. Heller's life experience provides a distinct vantage point from which to view the complexity of race relations in New Orleans and the South and the confluence of cultures that molded his development as a leader. A Bohemian immigrant and one of the first U.S.-trained rabbis, Max Heller served for 40 years as spiritual leader of a Reform Jewish congregation in New Orleans--at that time the largest city in the South. Far more than a congregational rabbi, Heller assumed an activist role in local affairs, Reform Judaism, and the Zionist movement, maintaining positions often unpopular with his neighbors, congregants, and colleagues. His deep concern for social justice led him to question two basic assumptions that characterized his larger social milieu--segregation and Jewish assimilation. Heller, a consummate Progressive with clear vision and ideas substantially ahead of their time, led his congregation, his community, Reform Jewish colleagues, and Zionist sympathizers in a difficult era.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817357661

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Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union

From De-Stalinization to Perestroika

By: Barbara Martin

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Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union

From De-Stalinization to Perestroika

By: Barbara Martin

How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under strict state control and without access to archives? What methods of research did these 'historians' - be they academic, that is based at formal institutions, or independent - rely on? And how was their work influenced by their complex and shifting relationships with the state? To answer these questions, Barbara Martin here tracks the careers of four bold and important dissidents: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Roy Medvedev, Aleksandr Nekrich and Anton Antonov-Ovseenko. Based on extensive archival research and interviews (with some of the authors themselves, as well as those close to them), the result is a nuanced and very necessary history of Soviet dissident history writing, from the relative liberalisation of de-Stalinisation through increasing repression and persecution in the Brezhnev era to liberalisation once more during perestroika. In the process Martin sheds light onto late Soviet society and its relationship with the state, as well as the ways in which this dissidence participated in weakening the Soviet regime during Perestroika. This is important reading for all scholars working on late Soviet history and society.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135010681X

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The Archaeology of Political Organization

Urbanism in Classic Period Veracruz, Mexico

By: Barbara L. Stark

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The Archaeology of Political Organization

Urbanism in Classic Period Veracruz, Mexico

By: Barbara L. Stark

In this volume, Barbara Stark examines settlement in the coastal plain of lowland Mesoamerica, which was richly endowed with fertile soil and valued tropical resources such as jaguars, cacao, avian species with bright plumage, and cotton. The book provides basic archaeological data about regional settlement from three decades of survey research in south-central Veracruz in the western lower Papaloapan basin, a region with low density urbanism. The data reveals political and social change, with consolidation of wealth by elite families during the Late Classic period. The political analysis considers archaeological evidence related to several organizational principles: collective versus autocratic, corporate versus exclusionary/network, and segmentary (unspecialized versus specialized). Many variables related to these principles used by other scholars are either suited to historically documented states, not archaeological ones, or ambiguous. Many published studies either focus on a particular city or use documents or other evidence drawn from the top of the settlement hierarchy, characterizing the whole society politically from a biased sample. This political analysis is regional in scope and attentive to variation in the settlement hierarchy, providing a guidepost to analysis of political principles with archaeological data.

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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

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1950446190

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The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics

By: Ruth Wodak,Barbara Johnstone,Paul E Kerswill

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The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics

By: Ruth Wodak,Barbara Johnstone,Paul E Kerswill

This Handbook answers a long-standing need for an up-to-date, comprehensive, international, in-depth critical survey of the history, trajectory, data, results and key figures involved in sociolinguistics. The result is a work of unprecedented coverage and insight. It is all here, from the foundational contributions to the field to the impact of new media, new technologies of communication, globalization, trans-border fluidities and agendas of research.

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1847870953

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Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico

By: James E. Sherman,Barbara H. Sherman

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Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico

By: James E. Sherman,Barbara H. Sherman

Given in memory of Ethel A. Tsutsui, Ph.D. and Minoru Tsutsui, Ph.D.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806111062

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Truth Be Told

By: Barbara McMahon

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Truth Be Told

By: Barbara McMahon

Looking for forgiveness… When Jo Hunter was sixteen, she told a lie that changed the course of her life and the lives of her two foster sisters. Now she’s home to make things right. She needs to make peace with Maddie Oglethorpe, the only mother she’s ever known. Jo is used to people not believing in her, but when Sheriff Sam Witt doubts her story, for some reason it hurts more than she ever could have expected.

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Harlequin

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1459218493

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Prisoner of Midnight

By: Barbara Hambly

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Prisoner of Midnight

By: Barbara Hambly

Vampire Don Simon Ysido has been captured and held aboard a ship heading to the US to act as a slave, and Dr Lydia Asher must stop it . . . at any cost. March, 1917. The goal of every government involved in the Great War has been achieved: industrialist Spenser Cochran has drugged and enslaved a vampire, Don Simon Ysidro, to do his bidding, and is now on the way to the US aboard a luxury ship. Horrified, Dr Lydia Asher secures her passage on the vessel to rescue her friend from Cochran’s chemical thrall. Meanwhile, her husband makes a dangerous alliance with the vampires of Paris to send Lydia the information she needs about the drug. As they cross the Atlantic evidence mounts that another vampire is hiding aboard the ship, indiscriminately murdering passengers. Lydia knows she must solve both cases before the ship docks, and that breaking Cochran’s hold on Don Simon will not be enough . . . She must kill him.

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Severn House Publishers Ltd

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144830198X

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An Index to the Will Books and Intestate Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1729-1850

With an Historical Sketch and Classified Bibliography

By: Eleanore Jane Fulton,Barbara Kendig Mylin

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An Index to the Will Books and Intestate Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1729-1850

With an Historical Sketch and Classified Bibliography

By: Eleanore Jane Fulton,Barbara Kendig Mylin

This important work has the names of nearly 15,000 Lancaster County residents who left wills or died intestate, 1729-1850. Arranged in two alphabets, the full name of the deceased is given, as well as the year, the book volume and page wherein the records are to be found. There is also a brief history of the early inhabitants of the area, and a classified bibliography.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806305355

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Accenting the Classics

Editing European Music in France

By: Deborah Mawer,Barbara L. Kelly,Rachel Moore,Graham Sadler

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Accenting the Classics

Editing European Music in France

By: Deborah Mawer,Barbara L. Kelly,Rachel Moore,Graham Sadler

Brings new insights to the music of well-known European composers by telling a fascinating, little-known story about French music publishing, specifically through the lens of Jacques Durand's Édition Classique. French composers, performers and musicologists acted as editors of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European 'classics', primarily for piano. Among these editors were Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel and Dukas; the objects of their enquiries included core works by Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin. Presenting six composer-editor case studies, the volume shows that the French 'accent', both musical and cultural, upon this predominantly Austro-German music was highly varied. Editorial responses range from scholarly approaches to those directed by performance or compositional agendas, and from pan-European to strongly patriotic stances. Intriguing intersections are revealed between old and new, and between French and cross-European canons. Beyond editing, the book explores the Édition's role in pedagogy and performance, including by pianists Robert Casadesus and Yvonne Loriod, and in the reassertion of contemporary French composition, especially regarding innovation around neoclassicism. It will interest a wide readership, including musicologists, performers and concert-goers, cultural historians and other humanities scholars.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1837650322

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The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe

Citizen Intellectuals and Philosopher Kings

By: Barbara J. Falk

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The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe

Citizen Intellectuals and Philosopher Kings

By: Barbara J. Falk

In addition to the huge list of written sources from samizdat works to recent essays, Falk's sources include interviews with many personalities of those events as well as videos and films."--Jacket.

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Central European University Press

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9639241393

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A Continuous Revolution

Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture

By: Barbara Mittler

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A Continuous Revolution

Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture

By: Barbara Mittler

Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art—music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and literature—from the point of view of its longue durée, Barbara Mittler suggests it was able to build on a tradition of earlier art works, and this allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory and its proliferation in contemporary China. Taking the aesthetic experience of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as her base, Mittler juxtaposes close readings and analyses of cultural products from the period with impressions given in a series of personal interviews conducted in the early 2000s with Chinese from diverse class and generational backgrounds. By including much testimony from these original voices, Mittler illustrates the extremely multifaceted and contradictory nature of the Cultural Revolution, both in terms of artistic production and of its cultural experience.

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BRILL

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1684175186

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On Her Own Terms

Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West

By: Barbara R. Stein

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On Her Own Terms

Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West

By: Barbara R. Stein

At a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867–1950) was an intrepid explorer, amateur naturalist, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, farmer, and founder and patron of two natural history museums at the University of California, Berkeley. Barbara R. Stein presents a luminous portrait of this remarkable woman, a pioneer who helped shape the world of science in California, yet whose name has been little known until now. Alexander's father founded a Hawaiian sugar empire, and his great wealth afforded his adventurous daughter the opportunity to pursue her many interests. Stein portrays Alexander as a complex, intelligent, woman who--despite her frail appearance--was determined to achieve something with her life. Along with Louise Kellogg, her partner of forty years, Alexander collected thousands of animal, plant, and fossil specimens throughout western North America. Their collections serve as an invaluable record of the flora and fauna that were beginning to disappear as the West succumbed to spiraling population growth, urbanization, and agricultural development. Today at least seventeen taxa are named for Alexander, and several others honor Kellogg, who continued to make field trips after Alexander's death. Alexander's dealings with scientists and her encouragement--and funding--of women to do field research earned her much admiration, even from those with whom she clashed. Stein's extensive use of archival material, including excerpts from correspondence and diaries, allows us to see Annie Alexander as a keen observer of human nature who loved women and believed in their capabilities. Her legacy endures in the fields of zoology and paleontology and also in the lives of women who seek to follow their own star to the fullest degree possible.

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0520926382

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The Law of Higher Education

By: William A. Kaplin,Barbara A. Lee,Neal H. Hutchens,Jacob H. Rooksby

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The Law of Higher Education

By: William A. Kaplin,Barbara A. Lee,Neal H. Hutchens,Jacob H. Rooksby

Your must-have resource on the law of higher education Written by recognized experts in the field, the latest edition of The Law of Higher Education offers college administrators, legal counsel, and researchers with the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the legal implications of administrative decision making. In the increasingly litigious environment of higher education, William A. Kaplin and Barbara A. Lee's clear, cogent, and contextualized legal guide proves more and more indispensable every year. Two new authors, Neal H. Hutchens and Jacob H Rooksby, have joined the Kaplin and Lee team to provide additional coverage of important developments in higher education law. From hate speech to student suicide, from intellectual property developments to issues involving FERPA, this comprehensive resource helps ensure you're ready for anything that may come your way. Includes new material since publication of the previous edition Covers Title IX developments and intellectual property Explores new protections for gay and transgender students and employees Delves into free speech rights of faculty and students in public universities Expands the discussion of faculty academic freedom, student academic freedom, and institutional academic freedom If this book isn't on your shelf, it needs to be.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111955120X

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Discourses of Empire

Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain

By: Barbara Simerka

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Discourses of Empire

Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain

By: Barbara Simerka

The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelistic narratives of commercial success. In Discourses of Empire, Barbara Simerka examines the representation of militant Christian imperialism in early modern Spanish literature by focusing on this counter-epic discourse. Simerka is drawn to literary texts that questioned or challenged the imperial project of the Hapsburg monarchy in northern Europe and the New World. She notes the variety of critical ideas across the spectrum of diplomatic, juridical, economic, theological, philosophical, and literary writings, and she argues that the presence of such competing discourses challenges the frequent assumption of a univocal, hegemonic culture in Spain during the imperial period. Simerka is especially alert to the ways in which different discourses—hegemonic, residual, emergent—coexist and compete simultaneously in the mediation of power. Discourses of Empire offers fresh insight into the political and intellectual conditions of Hapsburg imperialism, illuminating some rarely examined literary genres, such as burlesque epics, history plays, and indiano drama. Indeed, a special feature of the book is a chapter devoted specifically to indiano literature. Simerka's thorough working knowledge of contemporary literary theory and her inclusion of American, English, and French texts as points of comparison contribute much to current studies of Spanish Golden Age literature.

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Penn State Press

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027107633X

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Form and Reform in Renaissance England

Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

By: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

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Form and Reform in Renaissance England

Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

By: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Written by scholars on both sides of the Atlantic, they reexamine the categories which have shaped recent studies of early modern culture and literature, such as what constitutes the category of author or reader, what demarcates a particular literary form, and how its discursive shape might influence, and in turn be influenced by, contemporary political practices."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874136911

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The Law of Higher Education, 2 Volume Set

By: William A. Kaplin,Barbara A. Lee

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The Law of Higher Education, 2 Volume Set

By: William A. Kaplin,Barbara A. Lee

Make sure you have a copy on your bookshelf. The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference, research source, and practical legal guide for college and university administrators, campus attorneys, legal counsel, and institutional researchers, addressing all the major legal issues and regulatory developments in higher education. In the increasingly litigious environment of higher education, William A. Kaplin and Barbara A. Lee’s clear, cogent, and contextualized legal guide proves more and more indispensable every year. Over 3,000 new cases related to higher education have been decided since the publication of the previous edition, and scores of changes to higher education law are made each year. Every section of the fifth edition contains new material, including those related to: Hate speech and free speech rights of faculty in public universities Sharing of research with international colleagues Intellectual property and peer-to-peer file sharing Student suicide Campus safety Police and administrators’ right to search students’ residence hall rooms Governmental support for religious institutions and religious autonomy rights of individual public institutions Collective bargaining and antidiscrimination laws Nondiscrimination and affirmative action in employment, admissions, and financial aid Family and Medical Leave Act and workers’ compensation FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)

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John Wiley & Sons

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111853428X

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The Law of Higher Education, A Comprehensive Guide to Legal Implications of Administrative Decision Making

By: William A. Kaplin,Barbara A. Lee,Neal H. Hutchens,Jacob H. Rooksby

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The Law of Higher Education, A Comprehensive Guide to Legal Implications of Administrative Decision Making

By: William A. Kaplin,Barbara A. Lee,Neal H. Hutchens,Jacob H. Rooksby

Your must-have resource on the law of higher education Written by recognized experts in the field, the latest edition of The Law of Higher Education, Vol. 2 offers college administrators, legal counsel, and researchers with the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of the legal implications of administrative decision making. In the increasingly litigious environment of higher education, William A. Kaplin and Barbara A. Lee’s clear, cogent, and contextualized legal guide proves more and more indispensable every year. Two new authors, Neal H. Hutchens and Jacob H Rooksby, have joined the Kaplin and Lee team to provide additional coverage of important developments in higher education law. From hate speech to student suicide, from intellectual property developments to issues involving FERPA, this comprehensive resource helps ensure you’re ready for anything that may come your way. Includes new material since publication of the previous edition Covers Title IX developments and intellectual property Explores new protections for gay and transgender students and employees Delves into free speech rights of faculty and students in public universities Expands the discussion of faculty academic freedom, student academic freedom, and institutional academic freedom Part of a 2 volume set If this book isn’t on your shelf, it needs to be.

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1119271894

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History, Metahistory, and Evil

Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust

By: Barbara Krawcowicz

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History, Metahistory, and Evil

Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust

By: Barbara Krawcowicz

Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes. But most traditional Jewish thinkers during the war saw no such overwhelming of tradition in the death and suffering delivered to Jews by Nazis. Through a comparative reading of postwar North American and wartime Orthodox Jewish texts about the Holocaust, Barbara Krawcowicz shows that these sources differ in the paradigms—modern and historicist for North American thinkers, traditional and covenantal for Orthodox thinkers—in which they emplot historical events.

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Academic Studies PRess

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1644694832

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Lower Saucon Township

By: Lee A. Weidner,Karen M. Samuels,Barbara J. Ryan

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Lower Saucon Township

By: Lee A. Weidner,Karen M. Samuels,Barbara J. Ryan

Lower Saucon Township provides a unique glimpse of the region's many diverse villages and the German immigrant population. Towns including Wassergass, Shimersville, Polk Valley, Redington, and Bingen were settled largely because of the area's fertile soil, abundant water, and many iron and limestone deposits, which contributed to surrounding communities such as Bethlehem and Hellertown both socially and economically. These rare family photographs depict a blend of lives that influenced the area before and after the industrial revolution.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738538027

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From First-Year to First-Rate

Principals Guiding Beginning Teachers

By: Barbara L. Brock,Marilyn L. Grady

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From First-Year to First-Rate

Principals Guiding Beginning Teachers

By: Barbara L. Brock,Marilyn L. Grady

This new edition of the bestseller features more voices from first-year teachers and provides strategies for developing a first-year induction plan to help teachers become first-rate educators.

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Corwin Press

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1412916038

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Heirs of Yesterday

By: Barbara Cantalupo,Lori Harrison-Kahan

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Heirs of Yesterday

By: Barbara Cantalupo,Lori Harrison-Kahan

A reissue of the controversial novel about middle-class Jewish life in Old San Francisco. Originally published in 1900 and set in fin-de-siècle California, Heirs of Yesterdayby Emma Wolf (1865–1932) uses a love story to explore topics such as familial loyalty, the conflict between American individualism and ethno-religious heritage, and anti-Semitism in the United States. The introduction, co-authored by Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan, includes biographical background on Wolf based on new research and explores key literary, historical, and religious contexts for Heirs of Yesterday.It incorporates background on the rise of Reform Judaism and the late nineteenth-century Jewish community in San Francisco, while also considering Wolf’s relationship to the broader literary movement of realism and to other writers of her time. As Cantalupo and Harrison-Kahan demonstrate, the publication history and reception of Heirs of Yesterdayilluminate competing notions of Jewish American identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Compared to the familiar ghetto tales penned by Yiddish-speaking, Eastern European immigrant writers, Heirs of Yesterdayoffers a very different narrative about turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish life in the United States. The novel’s central characters, physician Philip May and pianist Jean Willard, are not striving immigrants in the process of learning English and becoming American. Instead, they are native-born citizens who live in the middle-class community of San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, where they interact socially and professionally with their gentile peers. Tailored for students, scholars, and readers of women’s studies, Jewish studies, and American literature and history, this new edition of Heirs of Yesterday highlights the art, historical value, and controversial nature of Wolf’s work.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814346693

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Clyfford Still

The Artist’s Materials

By: Susan F. Lake,Barbara A. Ramsay

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Clyfford Still

The Artist’s Materials

By: Susan F. Lake,Barbara A. Ramsay

This groundbreaking book provides the first detailed account of the materials and techniques of perhaps the most radical—and until now, least studied—major American Abstract Expressionist. Among the most radical of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters, Clyfford Still has also long been among the least studied. Still severed ties with the commercial art world in the early 1950s, and his estate at the time of his death in 1980 comprised some 3,125 artworks—including more than 800 paintings—that were all but unknown to the art world. Susan F. Lake and Barbara A. Ramsay were granted access to this collection by the estate and by the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, which houses this immense corpus today. This volume, based on the authors’ materials research and enriched by their unprecedented access to Still’s artworks, paints, correspondence, studio records, and personal library, provides the first detailed account of his materials, working methods, and techniques. Initial chapters provide an engaging and erudite overview of the artist's life. Subsequent chapters trace the development of his visionary style, offer in-depth materials analysis of selected works from each decade of his career, and suggest new approaches to the care and conservation of his paintings. There is also a series of technical appendices as well as a full bibliography.

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Getty Publications

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1606067214

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Countless Blessings

A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel

By: Barbara M. Cooper

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Countless Blessings

A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel

By: Barbara M. Cooper

How do women in Niger experience pregnancy and childbirth differently from women in the United States or Europe? Barbara M. Cooper sets out to understand childbirth in a country with the world's highest fertility rate and an alarmingly high rate of maternal and infant mortality. Cooper shows how the environment, slavery and abolition, French military rule, and the rapid expansion of Islam have all influenced childbirth and fertility in Niger from the 19th century to the present day. She sketches a landscape where fear of infertility generates intense competition between communities, ethnicities, and co-wives and creates a culture where concerns about infertility dominate concerns about overpopulation, where illegitimate children are rejected, and where the education of girls is sacrificed in the name of avoiding shame. Given a medical system poorly adapted to women's needs, a precarious economy, and a political context where it is impossible to address sexuality openly, Cooper discovers that it is little wonder that pregnancy and birth are a woman's greatest pride as well as a source of grave danger.

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Indiana University Press

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0253042038

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Inside the Bubble

Campaigns, Caucuses, and the Future of the Presidential Nomination Process

By: Barbara Trish,William J Menner

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Inside the Bubble

Campaigns, Caucuses, and the Future of the Presidential Nomination Process

By: Barbara Trish,William J Menner

Inside the Bubble: Campaigns, Caucuses, and the Future of the Presidential Nomination Process is a behind-the-scenes look at the 2020 Democratic nomination process focusing on the Iowa caucuses and the campaign workers who located there. For decades, Iowa held the first contest in the presidential nomination process and individuals interested in campaign work considered it a "holy grail." But in 2020, a record number of Democrats seeking to unseat President Trump – and the hundreds of young campaign workers who located to Iowa – created a political event unmatched in scope and scale. Those workers, embedded in the caucus bubble, focused for months on finding supporters for their candidate and ensuring they attended their precinct event – the first step in selecting delegates to the national convention. And then Caucus Day came, and with it a technology-driven fiasco that seemed to foreshadow a year of pandemic and protest. The lessons learned in 2020 underscored the importance of local staff who organize and mobilize supporters for a candidate in whom they believe. And those lessons are applicable to any race of any party in any state. For students of US politics as well as aspiring candidates, political journalists, and campaign professionals, this book captures the drama and human perspective of campaigns and elections in America.

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1000429024

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New Choices in Natural Healing for Women

Drug-Free Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine

By: Barbara Loecher,Sara Altshul O'Donnell

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New Choices in Natural Healing for Women

Drug-Free Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine

By: Barbara Loecher,Sara Altshul O'Donnell

Natural therapies offer a gentle, drug-free approach to women's health problems, such as PMS, migraines, hot flashes, TMJ, and others. But how can you tell which approach is the best for you? The editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books consulted with experts in thirty different natural therapies, from acupuncture to yoga, to take the mystery out of alternative treatments and explain them in plain English. You'll find out how the Alexander Technique can relieve the health risks of working at a computer, how meditation can improve symptoms of PMS, and how blueberries and ginkgo supplements can reduce spider veins. Discover these natural healing techniques for physical and emotional ailments: Acupressure Acupuncture Alexander technique Aromatherapy Art therapy Biofeedback Breath work Chiropractic Feldenkrais method Hellerwork Herbal medicine Homeopathy Hydrotherapy Imagery and visualization Massage and bodywork Meditation Music therapy Naturopathy Osteopathy Reflexology Therapeutic touch Traditional Chinese medicine Vegetarian diets Yoga Comprehensive and reliable, this indispensable reference tells you how to find a qualified practitioner and what to expect when you visit one for the first time. Plus, inspiring testimonials from women who have been cured by these holistic techniques attest to their incredible restorative powers.

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644

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Bantam

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0553579800

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9780553579802

Gordie

A Hockey Legend

By: Roy MacSkimming,Pulling, Barbara

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Gordie

A Hockey Legend

By: Roy MacSkimming,Pulling, Barbara

Wide appeal for hockey fans.-- PW. ...far superior to the hero-worshiping, gee-whiz, then-we-played, ghostwritten autobiographies so popular today....Howe has his darker side...also captures Howe's sense of fun and makes it clear that the man lived to play hockey....Must reading for hockey fans.-- Booklist. A very impressive book...thoughtful, well-written and marvelously evocative of the era when the NHL had only six teams and the Red Wings were one of the best...an excellent biography.-- The Sporting News. 240 pages, 45 b/w illus., 6 x 9.

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260

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Douglas & McIntyre

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1550544551

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9781550544558

The Onion Harvest Cookbook

By: Barbara Ciletti

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The Onion Harvest Cookbook

By: Barbara Ciletti

Onions, perhaps the world's most used vegetable, are the focus of 75 recipes in this inspiring cookbook. A color photo gallery of allium varieties introduces readers to the diversity of onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, and chives.

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Taunton

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156158245X

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9781561582457

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